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Edda

Discussion of the name

Ed(d)a occurs in Old English as both a masculine and a feminine name and probably developed from either the names Eada (masc.) or Eadu (fem.) or as a shortened form for other names beginning with Ead~, from ead ‘prosperity, happiness’ (Redin 1919: 40, 47-8, 65).

There are four entries for the name Eada in the PASE corpus, all masculine and all from c.900 or earlier, and three for the names Eda and Edda. Of these, Eda 1 was the daughter of someone in the Teesside area in the late eleventh century, Edda 1 occured as a rusticus ‘countryman’ in Kent in 968 and Edda 2 is a catch-all category for occurrences of this name in DB.

Bibliography

Redin 1919: M. Redin, Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala, 1919)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Eda

Spellings in Exon: Edda

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Ed(d)a

  Phillimore edition: Edda

  Alecto edition: Edda

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Devon	Phil. ref. 42,12	Vill North Aller	DB Spelling Edda	Holder 1066 Edda 'of Aller'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo fitzGamelin	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.06	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Edda 3 - Edda ‘of Aller’ (Devon), fl. 1066